New World Order (conspiracy theory)
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The
New World Order (
NWO) is a
conspiracy theory which
hypothesizes a secretly emerging
totalitarian world government.
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The common theme in conspiracy theories about a New World Order is that a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian one-world government—which will replace sovereign nation-states—and an all-encompassing propaganda whose ideology hails the establishment of the New World Order as the culmination of history's progress. Many influential historical and contemporary figures have therefore been alleged to be part of a
cabal that operates through many
front organizations to orchestrate significant political and financial events, ranging from causing systemic crises to pushing through controversial policies, at both national and international levels, as steps in an ongoing plot to achieve world domination.
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Before the early 1990s, New World Order
conspiracism was limited to two American countercultures, primarily the militantly anti-government right, and secondarily the part of
fundamentalist Christianity concerned with the
end-time emergence of the
Antichrist.
[8] Skeptics, such as
Michael Barkun and
Chip Berlet, observed that
right-wing populist conspiracy theories about a New World Order had not only been embraced by many seekers of stigmatized knowledge but had seeped into
popular culture, thereby inaugurating a period during the late 20th and early 21st centuries in the United States where people are actively preparing for
apocalyptic millenarian scenarios.
[4][6] Those political scientists are concerned that
mass hysteria over New World Order conspiracy theories could eventually have devastating effects on American political life, ranging from escalating
lone-wolf terrorism to the rise to power of authoritarian ultranationalist
demagogues.
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1) While Wikipedia can be a useful start point on sources for further investigation, it rarely presents as objective or un-biased. There is little if any objective editorship and nearly anyone can contribute, hence it's articles can often vary widely in accuracy, let alone objectivity. One redeeming value is the sources and references provided at the bottom of their articles which let one go further and out of wiki.
The link/one you provide is a classic example of such, still within are these slight samples from far-Left conspiracy theory;
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In his speech,
Toward a New World Order, delivered on 11 September 1990 during a joint session of the
US Congress, President
George H. W. Bush described
his objectives for post-Cold War global governance in cooperation with
post-Soviet states. He stated:
Until now, the world we've known has been a world divided—a world of barbed wire and concrete block, conflict, and the cold war. Now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the genuine prospect of new world order. In the words of Winston Churchill, a "world order" in which "the principles of justice and fair play ... protect the weak against the strong ..." A world where the United Nations, freed from cold war stalemate, is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders. A world in which freedom and respect for human rights find a home among all nations.
[17]
The New York Times observed that progressives were denouncing this new world order as a rationalization of
American imperial ambitions in the
Middle East at the time. At the same time
conservatives rejected any new security arrangements altogether and fulminated about any possibility of a UN revival.
[18] Chip Berlet, an American investigative reporter specializing in the study of right-wing movements in the U.S., wrote that the Christian and secular far-right were especially terrified by Bush's speech. Fundamentalist Christian groups interpreted Bush's words as signaling the
End Times. At the same time, more secular theorists approached it from an anti-communist and anti-collectivist standpoint and feared for hegemony over all countries by the United Nations.
[4]
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The research findings of historian
Carroll Quigley, author of the 1966 book
Tragedy and Hope, are taken by both conspiracy theorists of the American
Old Right (
W. Cleon Skousen) and
New Left (
Carl Oglesby) to substantiate this view, even though Quigley argued that the Establishment is not involved in a plot to implement a one-world government but rather British and American
benevolent imperialism driven by the mutual interests of economic elites in the United Kingdom and the United States. Quigley also argued that, although the
Round Table still exists today, its position in influencing the policies of world leaders has been much reduced from its heyday during
World War I and slowly waned after the end of
World War II and the
Suez Crisis. Today the Round Table is largely a
ginger group, designed to consider and gradually influence the policies of the
Commonwealth of Nations, but faces strong opposition. Furthermore, in American society after 1965, the problem, according to Quigley, was that no elite was in charge and acting responsibly.
[51]
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Paradoxically, since the first decade of the 21st century, New World Order conspiracism is increasingly being embraced and propagandized by New Age
occultists, who are people bored by
rationalism and drawn to
stigmatized knowledge—such as
alternative medicine,
astrology,
quantum mysticism,
spiritualism, and
theosophy.
[6] Thus, New Age conspiracy theorists, such as the makers of documentary films like
Esoteric Agenda, claim that globalists who plot on behalf of the New World Order are simply misusing occultism for Machiavellian ends, such as adopting 21 December 2012 as the exact date for the establishment of the New World Order to take advantage of the growing
2012 phenomenon, which has its origins in the fringe
Mayanist theories of New Age writers
José Argüelles,
Terence McKenna, and
Daniel Pinchbeck.[
citation needed]
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Antiscience and
neo-Luddite conspiracy theorists emphasize
technology forecasting in their New World Order conspiracy theories. They speculate that the global power elite are
reactionary modernists pursuing a
transhumanist plan to develop and use
human enhancement technologies to become a "
posthuman ruling
caste", while
change accelerates toward a
technological singularity—a theorized future point of discontinuity when events will accelerate at such a pace that normal unenhanced humans will be unable to predict or even understand the rapid changes occurring in the world around them. Conspiracy theorists fear the outcome will either be the emergence of a
Brave New World-like
dystopia—a "Brave New World Order"—or the
extinction of the human species.
[67]
Democratic transhumanists, such as American sociologist
James Hughes, counter that many influential members of the United States establishment are
bioconservatives strongly opposed to
human enhancement, as demonstrated by
President Bush's Council on Bioethics's proposed international treaty prohibiting
human cloning and
germline engineering. Furthermore, he argues that conspiracy theorists underestimate how fringe the transhumanist movement really is.
[68]
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Viewing the history of the world as the history of warfare between
secret societies, conspiracy theorists go further than Rothkopf, and other scholars who have studied the global
power elite, by claiming that established upper-class families with "
old money" who founded and finance the
Bilderberg Group,
Bohemian Club,
Club of Rome,
Council on Foreign Relations,
Rhodes Trust,
Skull and Bones,
Trilateral Commission, and similar think tanks and private clubs, are
illuminated conspirators plotting to impose a
totalitarian New World Order—the implementation of an
authoritarian world government controlled by the United Nations and a
global central bank, which maintains political power through the
financialization of the economy, regulation and restriction of
speech through the
concentration of media ownership,
mass surveillance, widespread use of
state terrorism, and an all-encompassing
propaganda that creates a
cult of personality around a puppet world leader and
ideologizes world government as the
culmination of history's progress.
[6]
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Marxists, who are skeptical of
right-wing populist conspiracy theories, also accuse the global power elite of not having the best interests of all at heart, and many intergovernmental organizations of suffering from a
democratic deficit, but they argue that the superclass are
plutocrats only interested in brazenly imposing a
neoliberal or
neoconservative new world order—the implementation of
global capitalism through
economic and military coercion to protect the interests of
transnational corporations—which systematically undermines the possibility of
international socialism.
[94] Arguing that the world is in the middle of a transition from the
American Empire to the rule of a global ruling class that has emerged from within the American Empire, they point out that right-wing populist conspiracy theorists, blinded by their
anti-communism, fail to see is that what they demonize as the "New World Order" is, ironically, the highest stage of the very
capitalist economic system they defend.
[94]
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Although some cultural critics see
superconspiracy theories about a New World Order as "
postmodern metanarratives" that may be politically empowering, a way of giving ordinary people a narrative structure with which to question what they see around them,
[95] skeptics argue that conspiracism leads people into cynicism, convoluted thinking, and a tendency to feel it is hopeless even as they denounce the alleged conspirators.
[96]
Alexander Zaitchik from the
Southern Poverty Law Center wrote a report titled "'Patriot' Paranoia: A Look at the Top Ten Conspiracy Theories", in which he personally condemns such conspiracies as an effort of the radical right to undermine society.
[97]
( Note that the
Southern Poverty Law Center is a notorious Left-Wing loonie bin.)
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en.wikipedia.org
The same source cited by "abu afak" above in post #162
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Bottom-line here folks is the Left-Wing have their Conspiracy Theories that blame the Right, the Right-Wing have their Conspiracy Theories which blame the Left; and the middle Reality is there likely is an "Elite" whom play the Left against the Right and have an Ideology and Agenda that is neither wholey Left or Right, but somewhere in a Manipulative Middle.
